Notes: NAVARIN was
built with only ten feet of freeboard. Nickel steel was used for the
armor in the main battery turrets and the conning tower, while compound
armor was used elsewhere. The turret bases were not armored; the
6" guns were mounted in an armored citadel. She was considered
to be very well armored, but quite underpowered. An unusual feature
was her four funnels, mounted in two groups of two.

NAVARIN with the Russian Baltic Fleet, and was a part of the squadron
that was dispatched to the Far East to reinforce Russian forces at Port
Arthur -- a 17,000 mile journey which began on 15 October 1904.
Unfortunately for the Russians, Port Arthur fell to the Japanese on 12
January 1905. Admiral Zinovi Rozhestvensky, commanding the Russian
fleet, decided to press on, with the intent of joining up with the
remainder of the Russian Far East Fleet at Vladivostok. The Russian
Baltic Fleet was intercepted on 27 May 1905 in the Straits of
Tsushima by the Japanese Fleet, under the command of Admiral Heihachiro
Togo, who had been waiting for them to arrive. In the Battle of
Tsushima, Togo's ships "crossed the T" on the Russian fleet,
allowing them to concentrate fire on the lead ship. NAVARIN
withstood substantial shell damage and a torpedo hit aft, but survived the
first day of the battle. NAVARIN struck a mine (or two mines;
sources vary) and sank on 28 May 1905. Only a single member of her
crew survived.